Reflective Writing

Master Classes for Senior Educators

Overview

An academic series of master classes mainly held at Deanery House on topical and emerging areas of medical education for the Deanery faculty. They will be open to the Deanery Educational Team and Educators in Schools and Trusts. Global and nationally important speakers will be invited.

Aim

Faculty development for senior educators in the Severn Deanery to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

Reasons for offering the Master Class:

Reflection is becoming increasingly important for doctors in recording their learning and also for the proposed appraisal and revalidation process that will begin to be rolled out in 2012.

Speakers details:

Dr Hilary Cooling is associate dean for SAS (staff grade, specialty and associate specialist) doctors, Severn Deanery, and COPMeD lead AD for SAS doctors. She is an associate specialist in sexual and reproductive health in University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. She completed postgraduate certificate in medical education (Bristol) in 2006 in order to support her role as Bristol general training programme director for Diploma of Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (DFSRH), as well as other educational responsibilities. She has developed innovative work-based assessment tools for the DFSRH, and has written and contributed to e-learning modules including BMJLearning.com.

 

Dr Nicky Anderson has been a Consultant Haematologist in NHS Blood and Transplant since 1991 and is the Educational Supervisor for Transfusion in the Severn Deanery. She is currently a member of the working group for the implementation of medical appraisal and revalidation in the NHSBT. She has an MSc in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals from the University of Bristol. Her other educational activities include directing one of the units of the University of Bristol MSc in Transfusion and Transplantation, examining for the FRCPath and she is also the national RC Path Transfusion CPD advisor. She has a particular interest in the role of reflection in learning and how this can be used for documenting CPD activities.

Aim of this master class:

To encourage Educational Supervisors and other medical educators to revise the theory of reflective practice and also to spend a creative afternoon practising a variety of methods of recording a reflection.

Objectives:

• Identify their Learning Style using the VARK questionnaire ( pre-workshop)
• Understand the relevance of reflection to learning appraisal and revalidation
• Summarise and practise different ways of recording a reflection
• Create a reflection on their practice as an educator (eg educational or clinical supervisor) to put into their own portfolio

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